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In reply to the discussion: OMG! I'm surrounded! [View all]csziggy
(34,136 posts)Or even early mornings. If I don't bring in the bird feeders, the deer will empty them in minutes. And they don't frighten away when they are eating - I had bird feeders five feet from the house and they would come up and eat from the feeders that close. If I opened a window and yell at them, they got so used to it, they would ignore me.
I learned that if I walked outside with a long object in my hands - a broom stick or something like that - they would take off. I think it looked too much like a rifle for their comfort.
They are beautiful and I would not want to ban them from my yard for anything. They owned this spot long before I built the house here. And the bird feeder thing is good since it forces me to get exercise twice a day, putting up the bird feeders in the morning and down at night. Well, it will once my broken toe has healed.